Mouse Extra

Scott Powers of the Orlando Sentinel reported yesterday in his blog that construction has begun on the T-Rex restaurant over at Downtown Disney.  I mention this because in the paragraph below, Mr. Powers echoed a conversation I was just having yesterday about the lack of good food at Downtown Disney.

T-Rex is to become a full-menu, full-service family-oriented restaurant, a genre that’s oddly scarce at Downown Disney. Marketplace has Rainforest Cafe, and there’s Planet Hollywood sort of off on its own at Downtown Disney, but everything else at Marketplace, and most of what’s spread across Pleasure Island and the West Side, is either counter-service or something more along the lines of adult-oriented themed restaurants such as the Portobello Yacht Club, Raglan Road and Wolfgang Puck.

This is something I only recently realized.  I often stay at Saratoga Springs, and one of the selling features about the resort is that you can just hop a boat or even walk to all the food at Downtown Disney.  But in reality, there isn’t all that much.  The Rainforest Café is okay, but that’s about the best you can say.  Planet Hollywood is somewhat overbearing and Raglan Road can be rather noisy.  Hopefully the T-Rex does the job and turns around this trend.  Downtown needs a really good eatery.

I’ll take some photos of the construction next week and report on the progress.